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Uprising (DVD)

In this riveting chapter from history, a small, desperate group choosesto fight rather than go meekly to their slaughter--Uprising.September 1939. The Nazis force all 350,000 Jews in Warsaw into a tiny,enclosed area, the "Warsaw Ghetto," a place of starvation anddisease--then begin to systematically murder the entire population ofthe ghetto. But after seeing most of their friends and family die, asmall resistance movement--the Jewish Fighting Organization(JFO)--founded by teachers Mordechai Anielewicz (Hank Azaria) andYitzhak Zuckerman (David Schwimmer), young Tosia Altman (LeeleeSobieski) and others--fights back.In 1943, a little over 200 teenagers and children withstand an assaultby the most powerful army in the world.